God the Almighty? Observations in the Psalms
The fact that the Hebrew Psalter does not characterize God as “almighty” and that only a few post-exilic Psalms approach the notion of divine omnipotence does not represent a devaluation of God’s power, but rather a definition of this power in relational and soteriological terms.
| Published in: | Vetus Testamentum |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2014
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Vetus Testamentum
Year: 2014, Volume: 64, Issue: 3, Pages: 434-444 |
| Further subjects: | B
God’s power
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Pss 115
135
139
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Volltext (Verlag) |
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| Summary: | The fact that the Hebrew Psalter does not characterize God as “almighty” and that only a few post-exilic Psalms approach the notion of divine omnipotence does not represent a devaluation of God’s power, but rather a definition of this power in relational and soteriological terms. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5330 |
| Contains: | In: Vetus Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685330-12341160 |